All HSJ Local articles – Page 121
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HSJ LocalSerious failings at Liverpool trust to be investigated further
Damning report detailed a catalogue of governance and care failings at Liverpool Community Health Trust between 2011 and 2014 Rosie Cooper MP calls for “independent investigation” into actions by the TDA, NHS England and CCGs Health minister Ben Gummer says NHS Improvement will be commissioned to undertake a review ...
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HSJ LocalLandmark reconfiguration held up by capital funding squeeze
Healthier Together reconfiguration delayed due to constraints on capital funding The project in Greater Manchester requires £35m-£61m of capital funding, but only £3m has so far been confirmed Local leaders revisit implementation plan to “send clear message that commissioners are committed” FINANCE: Health leaders in Greater Manchester have ...
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HSJ LocalMajor teaching trust appoints top Dutch chief executive
Professor Marcel Levi to take over at University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust Sir Robert Naylor will step down in September and Professor Levi will start in January Deputy chief executive Neil Griffiths will cover the top role from September APPOINTMENT: A new chief executive has been announced ...
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HSJ LocalHospital trust takes on fourth GP practice
STRUCTURE: Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust has taken on the management of a fourth GP practice.
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HSJ LocalTrust forced to close unit for three months due to staff shortage
Wycombe birth centre to close between 25 July and 31 October due to midwife shortage Forty shifts a month unfilled with 24.8 full-time equivalent midwives having resigned or retired in recent months Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust says it is confident birth centre will re-open WORKFORCE: A shortage of midwives ...
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HSJ LocalNorth London Trusts merge lung cancer teams
Whittington Health Trust has merged is multidisciplinary lung cancer team with its counterpart at neighbouring University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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HSJ LocalTrust to spend £12m on clearing waiting list backlog
PERFORMANCE: A teaching hospital is to spend £12m clearing its backlog of elective patients who have waited more than a year.
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HSJ LocalCQC: North Middlesex A&E 'has turned a corner'
Trust’s A&E rated “inadequate” But Sir Mike Richards says it has ”turned a corner” Chief executive on “emergency leave” PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has rated a trust’s accident and emergency department ‘inadequate’ but said it had ”turned a corner” and made improvements since April.
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HSJ LocalRoyal Free chief appointed accountable officer at neighbouring trust
STRUCTURE: The chief executive of a hospital chain has become the accountable officer for a struggling neighbouring trust.
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HSJ LocalHampshire GP leaders declare backing for Katrina Percy
Three GP leaders of the Hampshire multispeciality community provider vanguard have formally backed Katrina Percy, the under-pressure chief executive of Southern Health Foundation Trust.
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HSJ LocalNew North East mental health inpatient unit approved
New three ward mental health unit to open at St Nicholas Hospital Older people’s services to be consolidated at the same site Services at Gateshead’s Tramwell Unit and Newcastle’s Hardian Clinic to close Plans expected to save £3m a year STRUCTURE: NHS leaders in the North East have ...
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HSJ LocalRegulators approve landmark trust merger
Regulators have approved the acquisition of England’s last standalone learning disability hospital trust, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalLincolnshire sets out plans to tackle £60m deficit and performance
RECONFIGURATION: NHS leaders in Lincolnshire will go out to public consultation later this year over plans to radically overhaul key services.
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HSJ LocalSouthern Health to be split up but chief executive stays on
Southern Health Foundation Trust’s learning disability services in Oxfordshire to transfer to Oxford Health Foundation Trust Interim chair Tim Smart says “other changes will occur” at troubled trust Chief executive Katrina Percy will stay on but her focus will switch from operational matters to strategy STRUCTURE: Southern Health ...
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HSJ LocalTeaching hospital pleads for any junior doctors to help staff A&E
Leeds Teaching Hospital appealed for junior doctors regardless of experience or specialty to work in its A&E departments Agency and locum staff declined shifts at the trust despite offers to pay above capped rate Royal College of Emergency Medicine president says country is short of 1,000 A&E consultants ...
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HSJ LocalBristol heart review finds 'no evidence' of 1990s failures being repeated
Children’s heart services review finds outcomes at University Hospitals Bristol “broadly comparable” with other centres However, parents sometimes “let down”, nursing staff “regularly under pressure” and managers took “unnecessarily defensive position” NHS England to publish plans for reconfigured congenital heart disease services next week PATIENT SAFETY: The independent ...
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HSJ LocalFormer King’s chief to head up Cambridge AHSC
Cambridge University Health Partners has appointed Malcolm Lowe-Lauri executive director The former King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust CEO will join on 1 August Mr Lowe-Lauri is currently working for KPMG is Australia Cambridge’s academic health science centre has appointed a former chief executive of King’s College Hospital Foundation ...
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HSJ LocalCCG 'disappointed' to be given legal directions by NHS England
PERFORMANCE: A London clinical commissioning group has become the second CCG to be given legal directions by NHS England this year, over waiting times performance in its health economy.
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HSJ LocalSheffield trust chief switches to fellow vanguard
APPOINTMENT: The chief executive of a specialist children’s hospital is leaving to lead a neighbouring acute foundation trust.
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HSJ LocalNHS England regional director appointed trust chief executive
APPOINTMENT: A large community healthcare trust has appointed an NHS England regional director as its new chief executive.